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Lupas threw out this bombshell with characteristic malice and mocking laughter in his eye.
"Yes, quite a romance, isn't it?" he said. "Fancy that dear old gentleman leaving all that money to the daughter of one of the biggest scoundrels in Devon! I wonder if he knew you, Dorn. Some of these quiet, placid men are very shrewd under their mild exteriors."